Odds and Ends
Jul. 7th, 2003 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fredericks-I'm so tired of putting myself out there for people. Am I really just dense beyond all reckoning? What am I missing in my interactions? I wish I could film it all then play it back so I could find out what exactly I was doing wrong and remedy it. But no, life's not a reality TV show.
-Jo and I are so dissimilar yet so the same it's scary. I can't believe she's still with me after all the crap I've put her through. We'll never see eye to eye on issues like racism in the US, gay rights, and the importance of historically black colleges, but we both can crack up at "bean pie" references. Oh yeah.
-There's a slight difference between "craft fest" and "crab fest". If the people in my family could enunciate I wouldn't have a hilarious anecdote to share about the two. Ha.
-Some cool words I've used/looked up over the course of the weekend:
-People were setting of fireworks on the 4th, of course. But they're illegal up here. Twas funny; people were also shouting out "Down with the British! Let's win the War!" Yeah, like their drunk asses would have been fighting anyway.
-Kid actors are annoying. British kid actors are really annoying. That's my Harry Potter film review in a nutshell. But, then again, Alan Rickman (great actor, but, whew!, horrible teeth) does a kick-ass Trent Reznor impression while he's on screen. And the duel between Rickman and Branagh is entirely too short.
-Jo and I are so dissimilar yet so the same it's scary. I can't believe she's still with me after all the crap I've put her through. We'll never see eye to eye on issues like racism in the US, gay rights, and the importance of historically black colleges, but we both can crack up at "bean pie" references. Oh yeah.
-There's a slight difference between "craft fest" and "crab fest". If the people in my family could enunciate I wouldn't have a hilarious anecdote to share about the two. Ha.
-Some cool words I've used/looked up over the course of the weekend:
- bouillabaisse - when a plain "boo-yah!" just won't do and you're not, you know, into the whole brevity thing (/The Big Lebowski reference).
- hedonism - supposedly there's a resort called that in Jamaica. Three guesses as to what's on the agenda. Just make sure you don't end up going with your kids, like this girl's mom did. Unless you're into that sort of thing. Call your travel agents now, kids. Yeah, I knew what the word meant but after hearing the anecdote I was so surprised I looked it up again to make sure.
- maudlin - because I keep on forgetting what it means, even though I hear it a lot. Reminds me of "mandolin" and I keep on thinking it's a cute musical reference.
-People were setting of fireworks on the 4th, of course. But they're illegal up here. Twas funny; people were also shouting out "Down with the British! Let's win the War!" Yeah, like their drunk asses would have been fighting anyway.
-Kid actors are annoying. British kid actors are really annoying. That's my Harry Potter film review in a nutshell. But, then again, Alan Rickman (great actor, but, whew!, horrible teeth) does a kick-ass Trent Reznor impression while he's on screen. And the duel between Rickman and Branagh is entirely too short.
